Pigs

This novel is consistently well-written and imaginative but there was something missing for me. I think the missing something was “humanity.” Even an allegory, or maybe especially and allegory, needs to keep a connection with human feeling. I’m trying to think of an example now of what I mean and wh......more

Pigs is the incredibly captivating story of four young children who are stuck on an island that appears to be the drop off point for all of the world's garbage. The children feed everything that washes up on the shore to six excessively large, incredibly hungry pigs. And I mean literally EVERYthing.......more

I would give this book ten stars if I could. It's EASILY the best book I read all year, maybe in the last five years or more. I can't tell you what the author intended it to be, but for me, it was a parable about grief over the state of humanity and the world. I don't remember the last time a book m......more

Pigs, a new book by Johanna Stoberock, is surely intended to be considered in relation to that other book about feral children on an island with pigs. There are four children on the island with six pigs and all the trash of the world floating ashore day after day after day. There are feckless, bored......more

- Bir ada təsəvvür edin... Quraq iqlimi olan... adada ağılda altı nəhəng donuz saxlanılır... Adanın ətrafını, anladığım qədər, çirklənmiş sular əhatə edir... Və bu suların gətirdiyi dünyanın tullantıları... Adada balaca bir evdə 4 uşaq yaşayır... Bu uşaqlar sahilə vuran tullantıları daşıyıb donuzlar......more